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WILLIAM PARIS BARCLAY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SHAPING-TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,475, dated September 21, 1886.

Application filed January 14, 1886. Serial No. 188,605. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM PARIS BAR- CLAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Chilled- Metal Shaping-Too], of which'the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the construction of shaping or turning tools adapted for use with turning lathes, planers, boring-mills, or such metalworking-machinery as engages similar tools; and the object of my improvement is to providea useful cast metal chilled tool for service upon straight or curved surfaces.

I attain the object by the instrument illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a shaping-tool, said tool being represented in contact with a straight surface. tion of shaping-tool.

Fig. 3 is a plan view showingtwo of said shaping-tools attached to a tool holder or support; Fig. 4 shows a shapingtool in contact with a curved surface,

F2 5 the tool-holder being attached to an ordinary slide-rest. Fig. 5 shows a plan view of the said slide-rests, and a tool-holder secured to the same having two shaping-tools in contact with the tread of tire of a car-wheel.

o Similar letters of reference refer to similar parts.

The shaping-tool A has several projecting tool-edges, a, and is formed by casting it in a mold. The tool-edges a of similar tools can 3 5 be made of various forms-such as round edge, square edge, diamond-pointed edge, or such other shapes as may be desired.

Each individual shaping-tool is intended to have the tool-edges a of each tool exactly sim- 40 ilar. This, however,.oan be optional. Different forms of the tool-edges a may be made upon the same individual shaping-tooh The shaping-toolA (shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3) has radial teeth a formed upon each side of the hub of said shaping-tool, and similar teeth, I), are formed upon its tool-holder B. The said shaping-tool is secured to its toolholder by the bolt 12 and nut N. The radial teeth a of the said shaping-tool take into the radial grooves formed in its -tool-holder and 4 Fig. 2 shows an end elevaare a means of preventing the shaping-tool from turning around upon its holder when a great force acts upon one of the tool-edges a of said tool; or several of the tool-edges a can be engaged at the same time, as would occur when such tool was used in boring the hubs of wheels or pulleys.

The shaping-tool shown in Figs. 4 and 5 is. similar to the shaping-tool shown in Figs. 1,

2, and 3, with the exception that the radial teeth referred to are dispensed with, frictional resistance being sufficient to prevent the shaping-tool from changing its position to its holder 13 when it is firmly clamped to its holder by a bolt passing through the center of the shaping-tool and the eye of the shaping-tool holder.

The shaping tool or tools shown in Figs. 4 and 5 are attached to a holder that is secured to a sliderest, and the said shaping-tools are represented in contact with the curved surface of a car-wheel, the dotted line 0 in Fig. 5 indicating the contour of tread of a worn carwheel.

The shaping-tools are made with circular hubs in preference to any other shape, as the lines of crystallization of the metal composing the said shaping-tools after being cast become more nearly parallel than would be the case were the hubs of such tools cast to a square or triangular .form; consequently the circular form of hub is best adapted for strength.

The shaping-tools are made from castiron or cast steel, and when a tool-edge a breaks away or becomes blunt the shaping-tool is merelyturned around on its holder and the next tool-edge engaged upon the work that is being operated upon and shaped to a precise form.

Having described my invention and the method of constructing and operating the .same, I claim the following:

A chilled cast-metal shaping-tool, A, with a series of projecting too1-edges,a, substantially as shown and described.

WILLIAM PARIS BARCLAY.

WVitnesses:

MORRIS DUNN, A. FURNEss. 

